The firmness with which the clergy had lately, in defiance of menace and of seduction, done what they conscientiously believed to be right, had saved the liberty and religion of England.

Was no indulgence to be granted to them if they now refused to do what they conscientiously apprehended to be wrong?
And where, it was said, is the danger of treating them with tenderness?
Nobody is so absurd as to propose that they shall be permitted to plot against the Government, or to stir up the multitude to insurrection.

They are amenable to the law, like other men.

If they are guilty of treason, let them be hanged.

If they are guilty of sedition, let them be fined and imprisoned.